DaGeek247

joined 1 year ago
[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 16 points 5 days ago

Fun fact, I actually grew up with the right one inside my house garage, running. My dad managed to find a working one somehow, and was just handy enough to hook it into the water in the wall of the garage. It was actually really neat.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It feels like all the breaking bad characters were designed to be the heel. I couldn't stand any of them, and if I can't stand any of the characters, why would i bother continuing watching the show?

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Repeat offenders. It's always repeat offenders.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

Gender as a social construct tends to pretty strongly fall under the umbrella of "this is one of the arbitrary societal rules" that you run across just about everytime you talk with a regular person for me. I like being male, but all the trappings of being male, like muscles, beards, beer, bars, hunting, whatever, are only there because people say they belong there, and not because that is a thing I feel makes sense on its own merits. Essentially, long flowing wedding dresses as daily office wear on men would make just as much sense as a suit and tie does.

However, gender, for me, very specifically has me appreciate what I was born with. I like having a beard, I like having muscles, and I like the traditionally masculine clothes I wear. These things just aren't really connected to my self-perceived identity as a man. I wear my clothes because they feel right, not because they're what men wear. I keep my beard because it's fun to have, not because men have beards.

I think the autism just makes connecting "this societal trend tends to read as male or female" to "this is how I feel as a man/woman/other" a lot harder for us than it is for most people. The only reason I even learned about what being trans feels and looks like is because of the people in my life who are trans. If they had instead transitioned and just said nothing beyond "use this name and pronoun", I don't know how much I would have actually noticed about it. I had siblings penciling mustaches on years ago and just kinda went "fashion lmao" and didn't look any deeper into it. Like, my parents asked me specifically about the mustache, and I brushed it off, because all trends are arbitrary to my eyes; this was just one more thing on a long list of things that don't have to make sense to be followed as a rule.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 198 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you are an ICE agent experiencing thoughts of suicidal ideation, remember this: your choices and actions have led you to be undeserving of the life you were gifted, and the world is better off without you.

GodDAYUM that article is fucking brutal.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 16 points 1 week ago

From the article:

Here’s what went wrong:

  • Door misalignment — 4 repair attempts
  • Front drive unit whine/noise — 5 attempts
  • Water leaking from the tonneau cover — 3 attempts
  • Suspension clunking — 2 attempts
  • Water leaks from driver/passenger doors — 8 attempts
  • Rear drive inverter false undervoltage errors — resulted in disabled drive units
  • PowerShare system malfunction — never worked and was deemed hazardous
[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's funny but I think you nailed the timeline on the head. I got a 2019 corolla (it's a manual and it doesn't need a key!) and all I had to do to get it off the internet was pull a single fuse and reroute a speaker wire. The controls are actually a pretty good mix of physical and touch too.

It used to have support for showing maps on the head unit, but that never worked reliably and required special software that has been discontinued. I tried manual updating the software and that feature is gone gone.

I have actually rented a couple corollas since then, and they've all been disappointingly worse as far as everything about them is concerned.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

About six weeks. I was attached to someone else's unit at NTC in California for a training excersize with them. There were no showers in the field, and the showers pre and post excersize were colder than a witches tit, and open as a gay mans asshole after all night orgy.

And that wasn't the worst part of the whole experience either.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Honestly that last one looks pretty dope. I gotta try that.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

The built-in GPS limits are for speed and height, not accuracy.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago

You've never seen the after-effects of someone who actually got surgery to change smaller things. Those aren't obvious, but they are incredibly common. The rare few who do it so often that it makes them unrecognizable as natural just stand out from it all the more because of how successful it is for regular people.

The other part of it is that body issues often lie to you about what is good/bad about yourself, and they don't always stop doing that just because you changed it to what you thought you wanted. If you have the money for it, that can be a very vicious cycle all on its own. Don't get me wrong; I do things to alter my appearance regularly as well, you just have to be careful not to let the intrusive thoughts win where you can.

I think the rich people who make themselves that aweful looking through so many surgeries likely need help; I don't expect very many of them to be happy about the result at all.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

You'd just print the photo on the paper instead of that. Use the benefits of the medium to your advantage. Physical copies of photos has a history of working which is waaaaay longer than any current digital medium could ever match.

This is likely more for things which require digital data storage, programs, longer form text that space constraints mean you can't just print as a book, security codes, etc.

 
 
 
 
 

I switched to windscribe last month because the proton CEO starting spewing politcal BS, and I wanted port forwarding that wasn't locked behind a shitty GUI.

As far as I was concerned setup was super easy, the VPN speeds were great, and port forwarding worked really nicely. The whole price for a fixed server and port forward, + unlimited data was a bit much (at $95/year) but for the ease of use and speeds I was getting, I was happy to stick with them.

My setup is a always-on server with a 1gbps connection, where yes, I fucking seed my shit, all of it. I have about 30TB of linux ISOs and counting, and it's rare that my combined upload speed is less than 1MBps, ever.

Which lead me to getting banned from windscribe with no notice or warning in the middle of last week. This lead to me having to spend tracker points to avoid HnR, and i'm also unable to grab any new ISOs until I find a new VPN provider that won't ban me for actually using the service full time.

I did shoot them an email (after talking' with their AI bot first), and they were actually helpful enough. The offered to restore support, so long as I promised to not torrent with them again (which, I honestly did promise not to. I'm not sticking with a VPN service that can't handle me actually using it for what it's advertised for) and they did unban the account. Whole email chain took about three days to get resolved.

My sticking point is that they still have instructions on setting up torrents on their own website, and that they specifically allow for unlimited data (with the plan i paid for) so long as it's just one user. I did not break those rules. After clarifying that in the support email, they still said that I was using too much data (despite the unlimited data advertisement) and that torrenting was not allowed on their service.

TL:DR: Windscribe bans you if you use a lot of data, and support says torrents aren't allowed, despite their website advertising such. Proof in the attached images.

If y'all have any other suggestions for a VPN that allow port forwarding i'd really appreciate it.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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